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Welcome to Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

Fort Raleigh welcomes all individuals with a disability! Explore the accessibility pages for relevant information categorized by disability type. We hope the following information will be useful in planning your visit. While not all facilities are fully accessible, park rangers are available and happy to assist visitors with disabilities in making the most of your visit here. For any specific inquiries about accessiblity, please contact the park via email or by calling [phone].

 

Lobby of the Lindsay Warren Visitor Center

NPS Photo

Lindsay Warren Visitor Center

The visitor center for Fort Raleigh National Historic Site is located at:

1500 Fort Raleigh Road
Manteo, NC 27954

In the visitor center area there is:

• a paved parking lot,
• a drop-off area in the in front of the visitor center,
• restrooms to the left of the visitor center,
• a visitor center,
• a shaded, but unpaved picnic area,
• access to the Waterside Theater, and
• access to the Hariot Trail, Freedom Trail, and reconstructed earthwork.

Captions

• There is a video in the Elizabethan Room. It provides dramatic reenactment of the motivations for the various voyages to Roanoke Island and has captions on a separate screen.
• There is a video in the exhibit room discusses the theories of what happened to the Lost Colony. It is captioned.
• The park film has captions.

 

American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation

If you need an ASL interpretation to attend a park ranger program, please contact the the park at least two weeks in advance of your visit by email or phone [phone]. Due to interpreters having to travel from other parts of the state, as much advanced notification of ASL interpretation as possible is appreciated. For a list of ranger programs, visit our calendar of events.

Assistive Listening

Assistive listening is not currently available for the park film, videos shown in the visitor center, or park ranger programs.

Ranger Programs

Rangers will use voice amplification. Please let the ranger know if you require specific accommodation prior to the beginning of a program. For a list of ranger programs, visit our calendar of events.

 

Lost Colony Theatrical Production

For information on accessible features offered at the Lost Colony production, please contact the Roanoke Island Historical Association.